UNESCO YouthMobile
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Teaching young girls and boys to create mobile apps for sustainable development.
"Did you know? The next 1 billion new internet connections will be from mobile devices in the hands of
young people from developing countries."
The YouthMobile Initiative builds on the experience of many worldwide initiatives that introduce young people to computer science programming (learning-to-code) and problem solving (coding-to-learn). It also seeks to build on experiences targeting young women who are vastly underrepresented in this field. Finally it builds on the consideration that for millions of young people, the smartphone in their pocket is a very powerful computer, it will be their only computer, and they use it for nearly every aspect of their lives: communicating, learning, taking pictures, and playing games.
With this new initiative UNESCO and its partners strive to provide young people with the high-level skills and confidence to develop, promote, and sell locally relevant mobile apps that solve local issues of sustainable development and provide employment.
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YouthMobile - Teaching young people to create mobile apps for sustainable development
By supporting local and international initiatives
- training young people, building on the experience and best practices of many worldwide programmes introducing computer science programming and problem solving.
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